You’re a bastard and a coward, John. You and your union donations and your patently false sunk cost fallacy. You have just made generations of British Columbians pay for your political cowardice. #bcpoli#SiteC@jjhorgan

Of course this is infuriating, but people threatening to quit the party or vote Green are seriously missing an opportunity to steer the party in a new direction. I believe Horgan when he says it was past the point of no return, but our strength lies in grassroots activism. Electoral politics were never going to be our thing.

Here are two examples of why we can’t keep platforming hate. It normalizes this behaviour and, as I’ve said repeatedly, the idea that “love trumps hate” is deeply rooted in privilege and ignores the constant fear in which minorities live in: Police investigating violent, hateful messages left in Deer Run. Calgary, home of the Caesar, ginger beef, and virulent racism.